August 2011

08/24/2011

Good evening craftosphere! Today I'm sharing a little project with lots of fabulous felt on it, which makes it perfect for the current challenge at the Moxie Fab World. All the details here. And also for the A Passion for Papertrey one (anything goes!).

The front of the card is popped with foam tape because the felt flowers are really...

hair pins!

The rolled felt flowers were made from this fantastic tutorial posted by Nichole Heady on her blog. I topped them with a pearl and adhered them to the hair pins with hot glue. I also added a felt cloud and a felt lawn cut with a ric rac die.

I hope you like this project that I plan to give to a friend's little daughter.

08/22/2011

Hello there! We arrived safely in Madrid and we'll be heading North next Thursday for the final stretch of our summer holidays. Many people out there seems to be craving for cooler time, fall and all that stuff. Not me! I love summer and sun, it feels soooo good! Guess that's because I'm Mediterranean :) I'm SO not ready for rain, cold, school and spending so much time on the car! Anyway, enough ranting and on to my card for today, which uses a lot of one of my fave techniques: embossing, both dry and heat:

I made it for my dear grandmother (and also for the CAS-ual Fridays challenge which this weeks focuses on embossing, all the details here). This color combo is one of my all time faves. The pop of red was added with Ranger Liquid Pearls. Both the focal image and the sentiment were heat embossed in white, while the base pannel was debossed with a PTI plate and the medium one was dry embossed with a circle nestabilitie die.

08/20/2011

Good morning friends! Today is our last day in the South before heading North for the rest of our holidays. We've rented a dreamy little cottage for 10 days and I can't wait to get there! It looks like it came straight from a fairy tale, all covered in green. I'll try to take some pics and share them here :) So for this card I tried to capture the feeling of a cute fairy tale house and also wanted to do something new. A "double scene" card. I'm sure this already has some kind of name, but I don't know it... Ok, so this is the closed card:

And this is what happens when you open card:

I masked, stamped, sponged and paper pieced like crazy for this card, but it was so worth it! All the stamps are Hero Arts: this one, this and this for the sentiment. I'm entering it in this month's challenge, check it out here.

08/18/2011

Hello, friends! Have you heard the news? Paper Crafts Magazine newest special issue has seen the light! It's called Card Ideas for Paper Crafters (formerly known as Sketches to Go for Cardmakers) and it's completely full of inspiration with 288 amazing cards! You can buy your copy here. It's incredible the different takes that can be found out of the same sketch. Here's one of my two projects in this issue, it's in page 107:

I also have a little anecdote. When I sent my selected cards to be photographed for the issue, they were held by the US Customs like forever. Seriously, Custom folks, was that necessary? My little harmless cards! Lol, thankfully they made it on time but the whole issue almost wrecked my nerves! You can find the other card in page 91.

Thanks for visiting and don't forget to get a copy of this great issue. It's an amazing resource for inspiration, promise ;)

08/17/2011

Hello crafty friends! I have another CAS for today. And a bit of doodling. I've seen a few ladies using this "dots & lines" frames and I loved the look of it, so I thought I could give it a try. With the help of my trusty ruler of course ;)

To create this scene I used this Hero Arts set (super versatile!!!), this sentiments one from Paper Smooches and some die cutting. For the doodled frame I used one of my trusty Stabilo point 88 markers. They are inexpensive and come in lots of pretty colors. Perfect for drawing frames and little accents! I'm entering it in the Paper Crafts Magazine August Challenge. All the deets here.

I focused my stamping on the little tag. It's hard for me to not use black or brown to stamp my sentiments! I like the result here though, a happy little flower :D Some die cutting and a pop of bakers twine finish the card. Stamps are PTI and Hero Arts.

08/12/2011

Hello craftosphere! I'm back today with another card. I'm in absolute love with this alpha stamp set by Lawn Fawn. So many possibilities!!! And that Hero Arts cling flower is also one of my faves ever, I love that playful lines.

08/11/2011

Hello from the beach! Does my son get access to mom's crafting supplies? Nooo way. Does mom get access to her son's crafting supplies? Yes siree ;) Mean me! Crayolas!!!!

This is the first time I use crayons on a card and I really love the look on kraft! Stamps are PTI and Paper Smooches. I'm entering this baby in the current Embellish Challenge. Sorry for the short post but the Mediterranean Sea is out there waiting for us! Thanks for visiting :)

08/05/2011

Morning friends! One of the options for the Hero Arts challenge for this month is making a scene (the other two are cards for kids and using critters). I kind of combined the three of them in this card:

Ok, get ready because there's a lot of stamping involved here, just my fave kind of card! I started by creating 3 sepparate masks for the clouds. Then, I placed the masks on the white cardstock with non permanent adhesive and stamped the envelope pattern with broken china Distress Ink. Aftert this, I removed the masks and stamped the clouds in the masked areas.

Next came building the hills. I used one of the striped dots from this set and, again, masked one after each other overlapping them. After that I made a tree with another image from the same set. I first stamped it in yellow, and just a bot to the right in green. Easy peasy two toned tree :) I handcut the trunk from kraft. Last came the birdie, which was paper pieced. I traced his cute hair over with a yellow glitter pen. And finally, some Liquid Pearls to make the fruits in the tree and to paint over the flower. It gives a very cool effect! A sentiment and some doodling finish the card.

08/04/2011

Hello friends and welcome to my last Joy's Life Design Team Thursday! Today I finish my designing term and I would like to thank Joy for giving me this fantastic chance of being part of a DT, something which was new to me and I enjoyed a lot. Definitely a Pawsitively Cool experience ;)

This time I want to show you a little something you can do with that tiny companion images that come in some of the sets. In this case I picked the cute paw image in Lots of Pun stamp set, which you can find here. I used the little paw to make a fun frame for my focal image. You can also use this smaller images to make custom backgrounds or as a focal points in inchies. So much possibilities! Oh, and this card uses a custom sentiment too, made by selectively inking the sentiments "pawsitively purrfect" and "that's cool!!".

A little detail of his cool glittery spot ;)

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to say hi to the rest of the DT! You'll find them here.